Medicine [773]

• Medicine.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1296 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 773 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

MEDICINE.

773.

1296. Size 11^1/4 in. by 6^1/2 in.; foll. 659. Twenty-three lines in a page.

Abu’l-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. Muḥammad ṬABARÎ’S (flour. About A.H. 360) System of Medicine (كُنّاش) in ten books (مقالة) , called المعالجة البقراطية , or the Hippocratean Cure. Cf. Cat. Bodl. i. 135; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 357; Wüstenfeld, Geschichte der arab. Aerzte, p.56.

Begins: الحمد لله المتفرد بالوحدانية و القدرة و الرحمة و الافاضة والجود.

Well written. The single مقالات are generally separate. The sixth has the following colophon: تمت المقالة السادسة من الكناش المعروف بمعالجات البقراطية و الحمد ... كتبه فقير الحقير محمد كاظم كشميرى در خانه سيادت و نجابت دستگاه سید زین العابدین سلمه اه در دار الخلافه شاهجهان آباد یوم چهارشنبه سیوم شعبان المعظم باتمام رسید سنه ١١١٧ هجرى .

The copy was completed in Rajab, A. 2 Julûs, ¹ by the same Ḳâẓim.

Prefixed is a list of the contents, by a different hand.

[Johnson.]

¹ Of Shâh ‘Âlam I., i.e. A.H. 1119.